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With all these fragmentary, unsourced anecdotes about Donald Knuth, one would think he hadn't given numerous interviews and written several actual books.

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unsourced ? It's right here: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001.html and linked from the post as well. And it's Andy Hertzfeld one of the original Mac developers who related this incident. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld)

What's wrong per se with anecdotes ? It's a great part of the craftsman tradition.

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